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Vitamin D and Dementia

July 21, 2015

Vitamin D and Dementia

We’ve all grown up knowing that vitamin D is important for strong healthy bones. After all, that was the reason that labels on milk cartons stated that the product was “fortified with vitamin D.” But researc…

Artificially Sweetened Drinks are Not a Healthy Choice

July 17, 2015

Artificially Sweetened Drinks are Not a Healthy Choice

Most people wouldn’t be surprised to learn that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages would be associated with an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). In fact, this association has been demonstr…

A New Understanding of the Obesity Epidemic

July 15, 2015

A New Understanding of the Obesity Epidemic

America ranks amongst the highest of all countries in terms of the prevalence of obesity/overweight in its population. No doubt, much of the blame can be placed on the dietary habits that so characterize the…

Celebrate Who and What You Are

July 6, 2015

Celebrate Who and What You Are

There’s always a tendency in each of us to question ourselves when we consider our supposed foibles, but the following folk tale from Sacinandana Swami shines a different light on how we may choose to embrac…

You Can Lose the Weight – Four Simple Steps

June 29, 2015

You Can Lose the Weight – Four Simple Steps

Go to the mall. See a movie. Look around next time you’re in an airport. What you’ll see is the confirmation of all the statistics that we’re hearing so much about these days related to the ever-increasing p…

The Critical Role of Early Life Decisions in Creating the Microbiome

June 10, 2015

The Critical Role of Early Life Decisions in Creating the Microbiome

In Brain Maker, I dedicated a lot of space to exploring how we initially form our microbiome, the collection of more than 100 trillion organisms that live within our intestines. Certainly early life experien…

Dementia – Change Your Odds

June 5, 2015

Dementia – Change Your Odds

It has been estimated that there are around 45 million individuals worldwide who are suffering from dementia. Even more compelling are the projections that this number will nearly double in just the next 15 …

Gut Bacteria Chart Our Destiny

June 2, 2015

Gut Bacteria Chart Our Destiny

I have just finished reviewing what I believe is a seminal research article relating to the gut microbiome. The study, written by researchers in Sweden, is titled The Gut Microbiotia– Masters of Host Develo…

The Secrets Revealed by Teeth

May 26, 2015

The Secrets Revealed by Teeth

So much is now being written that connects many of our modern day health issues with changes in the microbiome, the hundred trillion organisms that live within us. Indeed, this was the impetus behind the hum…

How “Hurry Sickness” Threatens Health

May 19, 2015

How “Hurry Sickness” Threatens Health

These days we all seem to be pushing as hard as we can to meet our ever-increasing demands. I found the following verse by Eknath Easwaran to be instructional: Today’s mania for speed strikes right at the ro…

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